A Frozen creature has limited capabilities (due to being so cold), and fights poorly as a result. Freezing is a condition, not a wound. It persists from round to round, inflicts fatigue each round, and lasts until the creature thaws or the battle ends.

The unit panel displays these as Frozen: -3 and Frozen: -half.

Slowed is a separate condition with its own -2 to each skill. A creature can have both, and the penalties stack.

Cold attacks can freeze on the same terms that fire attacks can burn: 4% per point of damage, divided by 3 if the attack inflicts Fatigue rather than damage. At 25 points or more the chance reaches 100%.

The damage used for this check is the amount remaining after Cold Resistance, measured before the damage roll and before the protection roll. The attack must also wound: an attack fully absorbed by Protection cannot freeze.

If a single attack inflicts both fire and cold damage, burning is checked first and takes precedence. A creature ignited by such an attack does not receive a freeze check.

A creature cannot be frozen if any of the following applies:

• 10 Cold Resistance or more
• Spiritform
• Mistform
• the Breath of Winter enchantment
• a hardcoded trait: innate heat

Innate heat is a unit trait, not an aura value, but the unit sheet does not distinguish between the two. It cannot be given through items, spells nor modding.

A unit with innate heat has a built-in Heat Aura of 3, so it displays a heat value just as a unit with a listed aura does, and Fire magic increases both. Only the source of the aura affects freezing. Salamanders, Ifrits and Marids have listed aura values of 6, 4 and 5 respectively and can be frozen normally, as can Abysia's sacred Burning One with a listed 6.

The following units cannot be frozen:

The Anointed of Rhuax has both: a listed value of 6 on top of the built-in 3, for a total Heat Aura of 9.

Five units share the name Hell Spawn. Two have innate heat and cannot be frozen; the other three have a listed aura of 6 and can.

Ethereal does not grant immunity in Dominions 6, despite the manual's claim.

Two Alteration spells apply the condition directly rather than rolling for it. Both are Water magic:

Spell	Path	Research	Targets
Freeze	2	Alteration 3	a small area
Winter's Chill	3	Alteration 5	a large area

The Encase in Ice spells do not apply the Frozen condition. They immobilise their target through a separate effect, can only be cast underwater, and inflict none of the fatigue or penalties described above.

A creature standing in a frost cloud may also be frozen. Frost cloud damage is normally capped at 1 point, but the cap does not apply to a target that is already Frozen.

A Frozen creature rolls to thaw each round:

Source	Effect on the chance
base	25%
each point of Heat on the Scales	+5%
each point of Cold Resistance	+1%
minimum	1%

Cold scales count as negative Heat, and Elemental Vulnerability counts as negative Cold Resistance.

Fatigue is applied before the thaw roll, so a frozen creature always suffers at least one 2d6 before it can escape. The condition also ends when the battle does.